From Literary Review, a review of Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys by Morine Krissdottir. A review of Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice by Janet Malcolm. Christopher Hitchens reviews Bellow: Novels 1944-1953: Dangling Man; The Victim; The Adventures of Augie March and Bellow: Novels 1956-1964: Seize the Day; Henderson the Rain King; Herzog (from The Library of America). From Boldtype, an interview with Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (an another interview from The Progressive). Portrait of a poet as eco warrior: Nature for Ted Hughes was more than a source of poetry. Seeing his beloved rivers and moors dying pushed him into a second career - - as a fearless environmental activist. An interview with Salley Vickers on why Freud got it all wrong about Oedipus. Do writers' filthy opinions soil their books? Reading the work of authors whose private opinions are unforgivably extreme is a very uneasy experience. A review of Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes by Andrew Lycett. From NYRB, a review of a new edition of Tolstoy's War and Peace. A review of The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl. A review of Letters, Numbers, Forms: Essays, 1928-70 by Raymond Queneau. Where physics, poetry, and politics collide: An interview with A. Van Jordan, author of the new poetry collection Quantum Lyrics. A review of Frankenstein: A Cultural History by Susan Tyler Hitchcock (and more). The Loose Canon: The estates of several deceased writers have expressed an interest in seeing manuscripts published in their original pre-edited form.
